Browsing: Opinion

OPINION: Peter Williams. Is the cheerleading of expensive eating an appropriate use of TV news time? Sometimes you just cringe…

Editorial: Mike Bain Last week’s plea for unity lasted exactly seven days before the churches of New Zealand were forced…

OPINION: Michael Swanson. Incremental change, critical junctures, and the impact of path dependency. New Zealand occupies a curious position in…

OPINION: John McLean Near where I live the authorities are constructing a roundabout on the junction of State Highway 1…

OPINION: Lindsay Mitchell It’s appalling that a quarter of a million children now need an income from the state to…

Opinion: Gary Judd KC. Why the Reserve Bank must distinguish monetary inflation from supply shocks This morning I heard Auckland…

Opinion: Lisa Te Morenga Over the past few weeks, there’s been some fairly complex kōrero on Māori social media about…

Opinion Ashley Church. Over the past few days there’s been a lot noise about the agreement reached between the United…

OPINION: Michael Swanson  Note: I wrote this just before the latest polls, so doesn’t take into account the latest from…

OPINION: SA McCarthy/The Washington Stand I generally don’t watch sports and can honestly say that I have never watched a…

OPINION Chris Trotter. It was a decent turnout for a cold winter’s night in the Auckland suburb of Three Kings.…

Opinion: Michael Swanson. I’ve now covered four of the six parties (National still to come) in the New Zealand Parliament,…

OPINION: Don Brash. The following is written in Don’s capacity as Hobson’s Pledge trustee At Hobson’s Pledge, our position has…

OPINION: Melanie Phillips/JNS.org As we try to make sense of the nerve-shredding on-off-on war with Iran, and in particular, attempt…

OPINION: Michael Swanson. So far I’ve written about ACT, the Greens, TOP, and Labour as we look towards the November…

Opinion: Alfred Johns, Te Aroha Former U.S. President Barack Obama was speaking to Americans—not New Zealanders—when he issued this warning…

OPINION: Peter Williams How a clever campaign could help derail Chris Bishop There’s an intriguing campaign underway to try and…

OPINION: Alex Ward. Recently YouTube and social media influencer Jesse Ridgway revealed that he and his wife had decided to terminate their…

Opinion: Nathanael Blake Sexual sin destroys justice. This is a problem for those on the religious left who insist that…

OPINION: Ani O’Brien Labour has released its 2026 election list and, for all the talk about fresh voices and renewal,…

EDITORIAL: Mike Bain Labour has dropped a 72‑person candidate list — a number so large it reads less like a…

OPINION: Sir Roger Douglas. New Zealand’s serious superannuation problems began in 1976 when the Muldoon Government replaced Labour’s compulsory super…

 OPINION: Malcolm Falloon/NZ Christian Network Few phrases are used more often today than “culture wars”. Depending on who is speaking,…

OPINION: Michael Swanson. After being all about budget, budget, and more budget over the past fortnight…I decided to look at…

OPINION: (The author’s name was supplied but is withheld at their request.) The controversy around the Waitangi Tribunal, the rapid…

OPINION: Ashley Church. At the end of the First World War, the League of Nations gave Britain sovereign control over…

OPINION: Melanie Phillips/JNS.Org Fury has exploded among prominent British Jews and others over the decision by the British Museum in…

OPINION: Josh Packard Ph.D. I see a lot of concerning trends as a social science researcher. But this chart might…

OPINION: Chris Trotter One political advertisement stood out from the thousands that blitzed the US presidential campaign of 2024. It…

Laundering the latest lie against Israel OPINION: Ashley Church. Just when it seems that the moral inversion around Israel cannot…

OPINION: Batsheva Neuer Anti-Zionism has never been a single doctrine with a single source. It has emerged from different religious,…

OPINION: Ashley Church. Spend more than five minutes on social media and you will almost certainly run into the claim…

OPINION: Daniel R. Suhr The United States and Great Britain have long enjoyed a special relationship in world affairs, strengthened…

Opinion: Ashley Church New Zealand is in the early stages of a major debate about children, social media, digital identity…

OPINION: Rodney Hide. In Wellington salons and certain Auckland boardrooms, the conventional wisdom is settled: China is the unstoppable rising…

Editors Explainer: The Jewish Diaspora refers The Jewish Diaspora refers to the dispersion of Jewish people from their ancestral homeland…

Image: FBI agents work on the site after the Michigan State Police reported an active shooting incident at the Temple…

OPINION: Don Brash/Hobson’s Pledge. From activist groups weaponising professional complaints and silencing dissenting voices to taxpayer-funded universities mandating ideological courses,…

OPINION: Michael Swanson. We vote every three years, and then, for most of us, democracy largely goes on without us.…

OPINION: Ashley Church. For nearly three years now, a moral, cultural and political battle about Israel has been raging across…